Three Nice Looking Diff Tools and My Pick

1 Desire

Diff’s are hard. 80% of the time they are simple and fast. 20% of the time they are, well, complicated! My days of text-only diffs are coming to an end. They remain a part of my toolbox but I want a grown-up GUI diff tool. Fortunately there are plenty of options. But how to choose?

My decision making process was pretty simple: write down questions about them and answer them in a big spreadsheet

See where that takes me

Make a decision

Here is how it went.

2 Questions For The Spreadsheet

While this section is here for completeness, it is pretty boring to read.

You can probably just skim the column headers to get the intent of the column.